Colonel Leslie Groves shook his head as he read it. “Chugwater?” he echoed. “Wonder why they call it that.” Captain Rance Auerbach read the other half of the sign.” ‘Population 286,’” he said. “Sounds like Jerkwater’d be a better name for it.” Grove...
By then, the villagers had a good idea of who would never come home again. Women’s keening went on night and day. New mourning had broken out only the night before, when a Cimmerian died after taking a fever from his wound. The invaders marched up the same track the villag...
In the dim stillness beneath the trees, its light came wan, green, and shifting, almost as if undersea. The Romans pushing their way down the narrow forest track took their mood from their surroundings. They moved quietly; no trumpets or bawdy marching songs announced their coming. The daunting w...